His charge for driving with a suspended license was amended, and he pleaded guilty to speeding Oct. 14th in Strongsville, going 58 mph in a 35 zone, in a hearing Jan. 25th.

“The whole time I maintained he didn’t know (the marijuana) was there. It wasn’t his,’’ Spellacy said Thursday. “The officers on the video said he wasn’t smoking it.

“It was literally the size of the tip of a pen. That’s how minute it was and at the end of the day, they knew they had a problem proving a case against him that he knew he possessed marijuana which he didn’t know.’’

Callaway was stopped in Strongsville at 2:59 a.m. Aug. 5 for failing to yield to oncoming traffic, and officers found a small marijuana roach under the passenger seat of the car. Callaway was charged with minor misdemeanor possession and driving with a suspended license.

But Spellacy provided proof that Callaway’s car had been shipped from Florida just three days earlier, and that he hadn’t driven it in weeks since he came to Cleveland for the start of training camp in July.

“They did the right thing,’’ said Spellacy. “They dismissed it, he took responsibility for the things he has done which was he didn’t have a valid driver’s license at the time, and then a second case that was months, months, months later, he had (speeded) and he pled to that.’’

Callaway paid $911 in fines and court costs, and received one year of monitored probation for the suspended license, which Spellacy said was the result of some paperwork that fell through the cracks in his move from Florida to Ohio.

Spellacy said Callaway, the Browns’ fourth-round pick out of Florida, can get back to the business “of catching footballs.’’ But he must still be on his best behavior. Callaway tested positive at the NFL combine last year because of a dilute urine sample, and was placed into Stage One of the NFL’s substance abuse program.

The Browns have surrounded him with a strong support system and he went on to have a good rookie season, catching 43 passes for 586 yards and a team-best five touchdowns.